Colin and Coldbrew, yes, it is tragic. The worst part is that we have control over this and nothing gets done. Even trash from our heartland gets illegally trucked to the ocean. We need to recycle every tiny bit of nondegradable plastic, metal and glass and use more degradable materials. I can't imagine how we are going to clean up the mess we have made. Thanks, everyone for your comments.

Let me chime in with thanks, too! We're just waiting for that monster mess created by the Japanese tsunami to arrive on our coast. That was unavoidable, but this stuff is simply garbage thrown out by people with no conscience. Disgusting indeed!